Skydiver who cheated death flown home

A SKYDIVER who miraculously cheated death when he plummeted to the ground as he tried to land in the Californian desert was yesterday flown back to Northern Ireland by air ambulance.

Paul McMahon, 29, from Baronscourt near Castlederg in Co Tyrone, a keen and experienced skydiver, has completed more than 100 jumps in America and Europe.

He was on his fourth jump of more than 4,267 metres (14,000ft), over the Californian desert, when the accident occurred.